(yet again, copied from the last chapters)
Title: When It Rains, It Pours
By: BluX
Rating: R
Warnings: THIS IS YAOI! YOU NO LIKE, THEN YOU NO READ! If you don't even know what "YAOI" means then that basically says to me that you shouldn't read this…
Pairing: Kyo x Yuki
Summary: Storms have adverse effects on animals. What will happen to the Yuki when the Kyo goes emotional during a severe storm? How will Yuki react to the Cat's unconscious confessions?
Disclaimer: Yeah, yeah. Yadda, yadda. I don't own. Don't sue. Gimme handcuffs and one of 'em in an empty room and I'll be the happiest girl alive.
Sorry for leaving you with such a short chapter, I typed this up within an hour I think. I haven't had time to check the relevance. This is a filler and hopefully people won't get too angry with me about its shortness or crappiness.
And I want to thank all so very much that read AND review this story and some of my others. It means so very much to me to look in my mailbox and at least see one review there waiting for me. I'm sorry that it took me this long to realize that I need to get to writing again. I cannot emphasize how sorry I am. Please read and review. Hopefully you'll enjoy somewhere in there…
Chapter 4
Darkness had long ago settled over the house. The sounds of the rain were beginning to lull yet Yuki knew that the storm was far from over, just a small break in the droplets of water and flashes of light from the sky.
It was like a soft lullaby that distracted the nezumi's mind. Breathing in the scent of the night, covered in the soft smell of falling rain. Yet, even as much as the rain soothed Yuki's mind, there was still something. That something that invaded his mind like the lightning cracked through the sky, creating waves of sound that invaded the night. Thoughts of the cat that sparked waves of questions with no clear answers through the space of Yuki's mind.
It was almost frustrating enough to go and hunt down the cat at that very moment, but due to the actions of one day, perhaps keeping himself separate from the cat would be better than risking something else very odd and out of the ordinary to happen again.
A flash of light from the sky entered the mouse's room and receded just as instantly as it had come. He faintly realized that the rain had began to fall torrentially against his window. A resounding "crack-boom" resonated through the forest and shook the house.
The mouse could have swore he heard something outside his door…
"CRA-ACK-CK-BOOH-OOM"
Kyo jumped as the sound shook the entire house. Sitting outside had proved to be a bad decision as the wind and rain had decided to rise up and fall down in mere minutes. Luckily the cat had escaped with little to no water on him or his clothing.
He had now succeeded in backing himself into a corner of the living room surrounded in a blanket and pillow, very unable to sleep. The scared cat cowered and shivered as another loud burst of thunder rocked the house and the room was illuminated once more by horrifying shadows, then became dark once again.
Kyo hugged the blanket tighter around himself and cursed himself for being so terrified of such large scale storms. He bet that Yuki was upstairs sleeping fitfully through this horrifying bout of rain and lighting and thunder. The mouse could sleep through pretty much anything.
…
An extra loud boom of thunder took the cat by surprise and left his ears ringing as the shadows grew and disappeared. Shaking, Kyo thought of his situation. What would it matter? The mouse was most likely completely oblivious, there was no waking him up at this time of night. Nothing to lose…
Right?
Yuki waited through another loud peal of thunder and lightning, listening hard this time. Sure as the last time, there was a small sound, almost like whimpering outside of his door. Yuki's delicate brows furrowed as he sat up and stood to walk to the door.
Lighting, thunder. That small sound again, right outside the door.
Slowly Yuki walked to the door, opened it and looked at what was before him.
There was the cat, curled up in a small form on the floor, wound up and caught in a blanket. Shaking, there was another loud sound of thunder and the form on the floor jumped and that small whimper sounded from within the lump of material.
A pang of sympathy pushed hard at Yuki's heart, almost unaided. Usually the cat was indifferent toward storms, sleeping through them. But today had been more than a little odd and this behavior was almost normal so as to go along with the rest of the day's actions. Something kept him from calling the cat a coward and something also kept the mouse from turning around and returning to his bed.
Instead, when yet another clap of thunder shook the house and the cat uttered that one solitary sound and lay there shaking, Yuki almost grimaced with the pang that overtook his heart.
Broken soul, perhaps.
Yuki leant down and got on his knees, looking at the quivering blanket in front of him. He didn't want to frighten the poor neko more than he already was.
"Neko-chan…" Yuki whispered. The pang in his heart was bothering him, yet his mind wouldn't focus on thinking about it.
"Kyo…" Yuki said a little louder.
Then a part of the blanket folded back to reveal the face of a scared cat. His orange hair was a little messy and his eyes were somewhat wide, he was still shaking. Yuki wanted to just reach out and sooth the cat in any way that he could, take away that fear.
"Are you scared, cat?" Yuki said. Looking peacefully down at the cat's face below him as he sat to one side. The cat looked back at him.
"Never…" Kyo whispered, with a little less confidence than he probably wanted. Yuki wanted to chuckle at the cats never-ending attempts to show courage in the face of adversity, but instead frowned slightly.
"Are you scared?" Yuki repeated. Still watching the cat with an intense gaze.
Just then a boom of thunder sounded, shaking the house once again. Without warning the cat pounced forward and wrapped his shaking arms around the mouse's chest, laying his head on Yuki's chest. The cat was trembling terribly and breathing quickly. Yuki could feel the cats eye's squeezed tightly shut and his grip around the mouse was shakily tight.
The mouse sat there, in the middle of the hallway, as that pang in his heart grew. Wrapping his arms protectively around the cat, leaving one hand free to comb fingers through flame orange hair. Soothing the shaking Kyo with soft sounds as the thunder clapped outside.
Yet again, I want to apologize for the shortness and promptness of this chapter. Also I want to say I'm sorry for the amount of time it took me to update. Never could I apologize enough. But if you would be so kind as to leave a little comment of encouragement, perhaps I can get rolling on the next chapter soon. I've got a good idea for it boiling at the moment. Thank you all so very, very much.